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Freeview digital video recorder

While the UK may be playing catch-up in the PVR stakes, the success of Freeview’s digital offering, and upcoming digital video recorders with ramped up features, bodes well for the country’s advanced moving image viewing.

Excerpt from: Guardian Unlimited | Online | From Sky+ to A+
FVRS100 Digital Video Recorder, which launches in April, pairs a Freeview [...]

PSP: PlayStation Portable delay

BBC NEWS reports Sony delays new PlayStation product release
“Sony has announced it is to delay the US and European release of the handheld version of its Playstation console. The much-anticipated new device, called PSP, was set to hit the shelves by the end of this year, but its launch has now been put back to [...]

Video on Demand jumpstarting…

Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on Viacom’s attempts to sell Blockbuster, and other corporate manoeuvrings, as the tipping point where physical rental retailers are being replaced by a slew of new start-ups offering online video rentals and downloads.
Having been recently converted to the UK’s Video Island Online DVD Rental, we can attest that the local video store [...]

Narcissistic viewing: Mirror TV

The Mirror TV from Philips, an LCD display enabled as part of a mirror, using a special lamination (30 inch screen for around $5500). Moving further toward discreet, ubiquitous viewing:
“Mirror TV in essence is an LCD display integrated into a mirror, which means that you could surf TV channels, the internet or even view [...]

Hollywood blinded by digital cinema

On the eve of the world taking up digital cinema circuits Hollywood is still resisting a digital future. Some timely links on the subject:
» JD’s New Media Musings: Hollywood resisting a digital future
» Digital Screen Network - UK Film Council
» Financial Times article in the NY Times:
Digital Cinema’s Costs Divide the Film World. [...]